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(Warning: Long blog–please skip down to the next one if you are not interested in this one). Back in August, I blogged on the ruminations of Mr Barry Kearny, a 56-year old parishioner of St Anne’s Parish in Park Orchards … Continue reading →

Shannon Donahoo found this on Channel 31 on Sunday night and alerted me to the website. The program is called “Spirit of Life“, and is locally produced here in Melbourne. There are dozens of interviews with local Christians including many … Continue reading →

Rome Reports (www.romereports.com) is a new venture by the Legionaries of Christ, who already run the best Vatican news service, Zenit. Now you can actually watch (on streaming video) the events in the Vatican which you have previously only read … Continue reading →

This report from the Catholic News Agency appears to provide the surest proof yet that there really is a Motu Propio on the traditional Latin mass ready to go: VATICAN CITY, December 14 (CNA) – At the conclusion of the … Continue reading →

The two Danny’s have won a reprieve following their application against the findings of Judge Higgins in the long running Religious Vilification case before VCAT. Hailed as a success by Catch the Fire Ministries and just about every other conservative … Continue reading →

Last Tuesday, I held in my hands the episcopal ring which will be placed on the finger of the new Anglican archbishop of Melbourne (Dr Philip Freier) at his installation this Saturday. My friend, the Archdeacon (how Trollopian that sounds!), … Continue reading →

Here’s a nasty little piece, to which Amy Wellborn alerts us (and a good dissection of it by Christopher S. Johnson). It is a blatant act of what we, in the Catholic Church, call proselytising (aka “Sheep-stealing”). Apart from the … Continue reading →

From the same review as the quote below, Stephen Barr gives us this definition of Creation: In its traditional and profounder meaning, creation is that timeless act whereby God holds all things in existence. It is not an alternative to … Continue reading →

I liked this quotation from Stephen Barr’s Review of Edward O. Wilson’s “The Creation: A meeting of Science and Religion” in October First Things. The book is written in the form of a letter to an imaginary Southern Baptist pastor, … Continue reading →

Of course, it is Mozart’s 250 birthday year, and we all enjoyed listening to the ABC FM Australia’s top 100 pieces of Mozart (except for you Lutheran incurables out there who prefer JSB–a close second, okay, but Mozart wins (any … Continue reading →